· Private foundation
Paulson Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PALISADES VILLAGE | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN CLIMATE PARTNERS | $5,000 |
| AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| SCHOHARIE LAND TRUST | $5,000 |
| LYON RANCH THERAPY ANIMALS | $5,000 |
| VIRGINIA VOICE | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| APOPO | $5,000 |
| ORANGUTAN FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL | $5,000 |
| 4 PAWS FOR ABILITY | $5,000 |
| SAVE THE MANATEE CLUB | $5,000 |
| LIFETIME WELLS VISION | $5,000 |
| THE ARTS CTR IN ORANGE | $5,000 |
| WOMEN'S WORLD BANKING INC | $5,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL RHINO FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $72k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 21% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
21 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- OFORANGUTAN FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL9× · 2017–2025 · $46k · revenue +36%
- AWAFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $43k · revenue +54%
- RTRAINFOREST TRUST9× · 2017–2025 · $35k · revenue +100%
Funded once
- LWLIFETIME WELLS INTERNATIONALone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
- CRCANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue +43%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $4k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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The Fossey Fund is dedicated to the conservation and study of gorillas in Africa through a successful, people-centered approach: 1) Providing daily protection to gorillas, 2) Scientific research providing critical data on gorillas and…
Wildaid's mission is to inspire change and empower the world to protect wildlife and vital habitats from critical threats.
Nature and culture international conserves biologically diverse landscapes in latin america, in concert with local cultures, for the well-being of the planet.
Our mission is to act to conserve threatened species and ecosystems worldwide, choosing solutions that are sustainable, based on sound science and take into account human needs.
Protecting india's precious wildlife from poaching, habitat loss, and human exploitation since 1995.
To protect the rainforest and advance the rights of Indigenous peoples in the Amazon Basin. We partner with Indigenous communities in campaigns for human rights, corporate accountability, and the preservation of the Amazon Basin's…
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How this is measured
21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 29 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds ORANGUTAN FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RAINFOREST TRUST ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S WORLD BANKING INC ↗
- Who funds 4 PAWS FOR ABILITY INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS CENTER IN ORANGE INC ↗
- Who funds THE INTERNATIONAL RHINO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SCHOHARIE LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CLIMATE PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds Virginia Voice Inc ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE MANATEE CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds MIDWIVES FOR HAITI INC ↗
- Who funds Cure Childhood Cancer Inc ↗
- Who funds Palisades Village ↗
- Who funds LIFETIME WELLS VISION INC ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds LIFETIME WELLS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Charity Navigator ↗
- Who funds UNITE FOR SIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds THE GENTLE BARN FOUNDATION ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Paulson Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Paulson Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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